There’s Stack Overflow and Hackernews. I’d say that Stack Overflow tends to be a better resource than Reddit for tech questions - it’s not exactly a forum, and that’s both a strength and a weakness. And you can’t just copy Reddit 1:1, because then why would people move away from Reddit to another commercial site? It has been tried at least one time, and it failed (Voat). The threadiverse would probably also be considered a failure if it was a commercial operation.

My live used to be much better back then … I don’t think the two are particularly related for me, though.

TIL Roblox makes billions of dollars

If you’re in the same country as your instance admins, sending money via physical letter might not be the worst option. Though they’re probably reluctant to give out anyone’s home address if they don’t have some kind of association with its own office and/or postbox set up.

e.g. my mail service provider explicitly writes that they accept payment via letter.

Not really. They were certainly white supremacists and hated Jews, but Christianity didn’t really play a big role in their ideology. They spent a lot more time supressing local churches than going on about how christian they are, and many of them were very interested in pagan religions.

recent conviction of initiating physical violence

Which is pretty easy to get if you attend protests and the government intents to effectively ban leftist activists from having legal access to guns. Wrongfully charging protesters with resisting arrest is already commonplace in many EU countries, and “the protesters started it” is standard fare when people ask why the police attacked a peaceful protest. If activists started arming themselves, they would definitely use these, especially if they took them to protests (though that would be illegal anyway in my country).

So what you’re saying is, we basically can’t have strong gun laws until our political systems are deeply changed in one way or another?

15 year old cars. I don’t believe in throwaway culture. Plus I hate new cars so there’s that.

When you put it like that, I can actually get behind that. New cars are absurd with all their electronics and non-fixability.

But you can’t start your scenario from after there’s already a fully placed authoritarian government in place. If you’re starting from there then there’s no actual law about anything at all anyway, guns or otherwise.

Fair enough. I guess it depends on how authoritarian and anti-progressive you think most western governments were before they started to tune into the Trump bs; it’s a completely different conversation if you think that we need a revolution before enacting strong gun control laws.

And secondly, you’re arguing as if strong gun control laws means a gun ban, which aren’t at all the same thing.

It’s really easy to declare someone who belongs to a political movement or politicized minority as ‘not fit for gun ownership’, the further away from the current political center the easier.

The issue with strong gun control laws is that they would definitely be leveraged by authoritarian governments against the interests of the common people. I’m not really a fan of complete gun ownership freedom, but even in the not-quite-as-overtly-fascist past of US politics, it’s been conspicuous how often state gun laws were tightened when minorities started arming themselves, while the ‘white men shooting up schools’-issue is pretty much being ignored.

Damn, a lot of people wouldn’t have learned a reasonable lesson from that interaction …

I think all the inter-instance drama on Lemmy shows pretty well that people don’t need money to enter filter bubbles. I don’t think you can even see this comment lol

Western politicians have become increasingly mask-off. I remember back in the early 00s, national politicians in my country stepped down because they used frequent flyer miles from flights for official purposes for private purposes. Nowadays, they get exposed for blatant corruption, power misuse and even serial rape and just carry on.

… why do you have 3 of them?

What, no Microslop? This is far too functional to call it “Trump Laptop”.

If we’re free to redefine “religion” as we see fit, I declare breathing a religion.

I want to note that none of this was valid science, the results were worthless because they prioritized torture and didn’t document their “experiments” and their results properly. Same for medical Nazi “research”.

Though it’s true that you don’t need religion to do evil acts.

Idk why we’ve reached the point where anyone saying they’re anything but an atheist has to specify that they aren’t a bigot

Most “spiritual” people adhere to one of the big organized religions, and those kinda suck in general and are rarely content to leave nonbelievers in peace.

Is this based on real, reliable statistics or just newspaper headlines?

Kinda depends on the specific reasons.

Who does that “for personal or political reasons”? I know that it’s sometimes done because there are a lot of hacking attempts but few to none genuine users from certain countries.